Yeah Yeah Yeahs (music group)

The main attraction at a sold-out gig, TV on the Radio wasn't scheduled to perform until after 10 p.m.

But at Pappy & Harriet's, the dusty little roadhouse off Route 62 near Joshua Tree, sound check is far from a private affair. So on a recent Friday afternoon, Tunde Adebimpe and Jaleel Bunton found themselves with an audience of grizzled bikers and late-lunching tourists as they tested their gear hours before showtime.

"What should we play?" asked Adebimpe, the taller of the band's two bespectacled lead singers. Twisting dials behind a mixing board, the sound guy suggested a song from TV on the Radio's new album, "Seeds," due Nov. 18 from Harvest...

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